Tan
@gluestick1234.bsky.social
Musician. She/they. 🏳️⚧️
Traumatized, anxious, and depressed - so yes, I’m Jewish
Traumatized, anxious, and depressed - so yes, I’m Jewish
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Tan
@gluestick1234.bsky.social
· Feb 9
Fuck it. I'm tired of hiding, letting other people dictate how I'm seen.
Here's my story with Ci, the prequel to current events. In some ways, I was the test run. Shit I helped him with in good faith became his tools of manipulation. Things he did to me first got refined and redone. Time to talk.
Here's my story with Ci, the prequel to current events. In some ways, I was the test run. Shit I helped him with in good faith became his tools of manipulation. Things he did to me first got refined and redone. Time to talk.
Apparently he’s back in my city :|||
Fuck it. I'm tired of hiding, letting other people dictate how I'm seen.
Here's my story with Ci, the prequel to current events. In some ways, I was the test run. Shit I helped him with in good faith became his tools of manipulation. Things he did to me first got refined and redone. Time to talk.
Here's my story with Ci, the prequel to current events. In some ways, I was the test run. Shit I helped him with in good faith became his tools of manipulation. Things he did to me first got refined and redone. Time to talk.
October 26, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Apparently he’s back in my city :|||
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Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
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In particular, I cannot recommend these three works highly enough:
- Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California
- African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000
- In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
- Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California
- African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000
- In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
Bookshop.org US
bookshop.org
September 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
In particular, I cannot recommend these three works highly enough:
- Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California
- African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000
- In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
- Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California
- African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000
- In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
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The most dangerous thing we can do is to do nothing. Remember, war is upon us whether we would risk it or not.
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...
theonion.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The most dangerous thing we can do is to do nothing. Remember, war is upon us whether we would risk it or not.
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Sen. Baldwin: When RFK Jr. did this mass firing in the CDC, he ended up firing everybody in the childhood lead poisoning division. When Milwaukee public schools had a lead crisis and called the CDC for help, there was no one there to answer the phone. This incompetence has real life consequences
September 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Sen. Baldwin: When RFK Jr. did this mass firing in the CDC, he ended up firing everybody in the childhood lead poisoning division. When Milwaukee public schools had a lead crisis and called the CDC for help, there was no one there to answer the phone. This incompetence has real life consequences
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This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.
September 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
August 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
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This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
Trump declares intention to issue an Executive Order mandating Voter ID for all votes, restricts mail-in voting to exceptions, and insists on paper ballots only.
August 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
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That TF story you commissioned? Account banned.
That vore comic? Banned.
That custom puphood? Banned.
That latex catsuit? Banned.
That fursuit? Furries are called deviants and sexual so... Banned.
You went to a con? A furry one? Banned.
CALL YOUR PAYMENT PROVIDERS!
That vore comic? Banned.
That custom puphood? Banned.
That latex catsuit? Banned.
That fursuit? Furries are called deviants and sexual so... Banned.
You went to a con? A furry one? Banned.
CALL YOUR PAYMENT PROVIDERS!
PayPal user in the UK lost their account after buying adult ebooks “about monsters and milking,” “some dubcon stuff”
“My account got banned a couple of days ago for making purchases which violate the ToS. Upon querying w/ staff over the phone I've been told that it was ebooks that I've been buying”
“My account got banned a couple of days ago for making purchases which violate the ToS. Upon querying w/ staff over the phone I've been told that it was ebooks that I've been buying”
August 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
That TF story you commissioned? Account banned.
That vore comic? Banned.
That custom puphood? Banned.
That latex catsuit? Banned.
That fursuit? Furries are called deviants and sexual so... Banned.
You went to a con? A furry one? Banned.
CALL YOUR PAYMENT PROVIDERS!
That vore comic? Banned.
That custom puphood? Banned.
That latex catsuit? Banned.
That fursuit? Furries are called deviants and sexual so... Banned.
You went to a con? A furry one? Banned.
CALL YOUR PAYMENT PROVIDERS!
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How does an adult verifying their age keep children safe? How does an adult using a VPN make children less safe? Did anyone ask these obvious follow-up questions of the minister here or did they just let it slide?
UK government asks everybody to stop using VPNs.
"everybody who's out there thinking of using VPNs...verifying your age keeps a child safe...So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age."
- UK government
"everybody who's out there thinking of using VPNs...verifying your age keeps a child safe...So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age."
- UK government
August 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
How does an adult verifying their age keep children safe? How does an adult using a VPN make children less safe? Did anyone ask these obvious follow-up questions of the minister here or did they just let it slide?
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The craven reactionary centrists at Third Way are advising Democrats not to use the term LGBTQ, BIPOC, allyship, or intersectionality. They're erasing the entire language used to describe minority communities.
www.thirdway.org/memo/was-it-...
www.thirdway.org/memo/was-it-...
August 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The craven reactionary centrists at Third Way are advising Democrats not to use the term LGBTQ, BIPOC, allyship, or intersectionality. They're erasing the entire language used to describe minority communities.
www.thirdway.org/memo/was-it-...
www.thirdway.org/memo/was-it-...
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I'll say it again: it's amazing how many Americans who enjoy dystopian science-fiction media are also proving themselves to be 100% on board for signing over most of their cognitive function to technological tools run by sinister, giant corporations.
It really does feel like a lot of formerly reasonable people have been infected by some sort of terrifying brain parasite when it comes to unthinking and total acceptance of using AI tools
Absolute worst part, imo, is the pressure from school administrators to "welcome our new overlords" by adopting AI. It's also happening in elite universities, to my utter bafflement & horror. Anyone who calls bullshit on AI is treated as if only ignorance could explain their perspective.
August 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I'll say it again: it's amazing how many Americans who enjoy dystopian science-fiction media are also proving themselves to be 100% on board for signing over most of their cognitive function to technological tools run by sinister, giant corporations.
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If you’re from Texas and this doesn’t even remotely surprise you, clap your hands… 👏🏼👏🏼
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
www.texasobserver.org
July 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
If you’re from Texas and this doesn’t even remotely surprise you, clap your hands… 👏🏼👏🏼
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Crew aboard the Handala includes Amazon union organizer Chris Smalls. The ship is attempting to bring much needed food and supplies into Gaza.
July 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Crew aboard the Handala includes Amazon union organizer Chris Smalls. The ship is attempting to bring much needed food and supplies into Gaza.
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just going to yell it once more for those in the back- the attacks on universities are *not* separable from the admin's attacks on trans people. university administrators who try to ignore that (👀) are once again failing to grasp the magnitude and scope of the issues at hand
Buried in Columbia's agreement/bribe with the Trump regime (and not reported by the news) is a section which agrees to segregate trans women from women's housing, sports, and bathrooms. Functionally, trans women are no longer welcome at Columbia University.
July 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
just going to yell it once more for those in the back- the attacks on universities are *not* separable from the admin's attacks on trans people. university administrators who try to ignore that (👀) are once again failing to grasp the magnitude and scope of the issues at hand
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Alabama only began closing major educational achievement gaps between white and Black students after direct federal aid to schools became available in the 1960s, alleviating some of the worst effects of our Jim Crow school funding model. The DOE administers many of those programs.
why destroy the department of education?
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Who Benefits from Destroying the Department of Education
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration can go ahead with its ambitious, ruinous plan of gutting the Department of Education, firing...
buttondown.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Alabama only began closing major educational achievement gaps between white and Black students after direct federal aid to schools became available in the 1960s, alleviating some of the worst effects of our Jim Crow school funding model. The DOE administers many of those programs.
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I've been saying that ever since losing on segregation the evangelical project's main goal has been to return to a pre Brown v board society, and this breaks that down nicely
why destroy the department of education?
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Who Benefits from Destroying the Department of Education
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration can go ahead with its ambitious, ruinous plan of gutting the Department of Education, firing...
buttondown.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I've been saying that ever since losing on segregation the evangelical project's main goal has been to return to a pre Brown v board society, and this breaks that down nicely
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I remember seeing a map like this once with like, the modern Berlin transit map on top of it, and the point was...there were so many, so close to where people lived and worked. The idea that they were all hidden away is also a fiction.
July 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I remember seeing a map like this once with like, the modern Berlin transit map on top of it, and the point was...there were so many, so close to where people lived and worked. The idea that they were all hidden away is also a fiction.
Sometimes I’m like “maybe stuff wasn’t so bad the last few years” and then I can’t sleep, lying awake all night with my heart racing and sweating out my sheets just for seeing a Bluesky post reminding me
June 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Sometimes I’m like “maybe stuff wasn’t so bad the last few years” and then I can’t sleep, lying awake all night with my heart racing and sweating out my sheets just for seeing a Bluesky post reminding me
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this was always annoying, but now that there are no republicans left who even pretend to do it back, it is a level of Charlie Brown / Lucy / football clownery that no one can take anymore
Something the Mamdani win demonstrates is the extent to which the reigning cadre of ancient, establishment, centrist Dems think it’s more important to be on good terms with their GOP colleagues than it is to represent their own voters, and how thoroughly sick of this literally everyone is.
June 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM
this was always annoying, but now that there are no republicans left who even pretend to do it back, it is a level of Charlie Brown / Lucy / football clownery that no one can take anymore
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One important difference being that the Republicans know how to harness the energy of their ultra-ideological flank, while the Democrats spend incredible amounts of energy and money trying to neutralize theirs.
The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
June 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
One important difference being that the Republicans know how to harness the energy of their ultra-ideological flank, while the Democrats spend incredible amounts of energy and money trying to neutralize theirs.
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J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
May 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
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Since we’re talking about Jewish atheism! It’s actually a very common thing and extremely in line with Jewish belief systems as we believe STRONGLY in skepticism and questioning. Atheism is extremely common among us and even many Rabbis are atheists.
May 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Since we’re talking about Jewish atheism! It’s actually a very common thing and extremely in line with Jewish belief systems as we believe STRONGLY in skepticism and questioning. Atheism is extremely common among us and even many Rabbis are atheists.